Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-21

seeing his successor even less successful
than himself, for the last attempt, which
occurred couple of years later, resulted
in the well-remembered tregic death OF
the Emperor, and GourKho'o cynical reply
to his Imperial master, that "the devil
himself could not keep these accursed
Nihilists out of mischief" had 5eenJustl-
fed by the sequence. ~ :
Alexander III. took two more years;
however, to make up his mind about
Gourkho's loyalty or ability. He recalled
him in 8S3 from his exile and appointed
him Governor General OF Warsaw, field
in which Gourkho has had frequent &C.
CASTOR to demonstrate that he is anything
but friend to the Nihilist or any other
foe of his masters. In fact, the common
saying in Warsaw is that there has never
been a representative of the Car there so
inhumanely severe towards all those who
show even the faintest tinge OF liberalism
in their political aspirations. He stran-
giles every Polish thought, every breath,
every infant movement in its era
die, if it have but the slight
est anti-Russian coloring. Like
Mouravieff, the "hangman" Gourkho
seems to have made 1t his ambition to
nationality, and there is probably no bet
ter hated man walking the earth to-day
than Gourkho. In his fine gubernatori9l
palace in Warsaw, situated in street
! where every foot is alive with glorious
memories of Polish independence, he sits
| like an evil genius casting baleful spells
/ and prOnouncing dread sentences over
! political offenders. The chains of slavery
| have been firmly riveted by him on the
! slender ankle of the Sarmatian, the man
of superior race. viii the chain ever
! break? Those must have been sOmoer,
! vengeful thoughts that have filled his
| brain during the lonesome, interminabie
winter nights on his estates way of IN the
woods, where he could hear the wolves
bowling with hunger and the branches OIL
the trees cracking with frost.
But there he is to-day the sue
cessor of the courtly and ami
sble Baron Kotzebue, descendant
! of the German poet of that name
and with poets soul Of his own, making
the contrast all the greater. There he /:
in a position yielding him vaster anC
more unlimited power that ever, lordln!
it over on enslaved nation OF S,OOO,OOS
souls, clad with almost royal power, anC
! once again basking in the sunshine o.
Imperial favor. Alexander III. has re
gained all the confidence in Gourkht
/ which mis- murdered father lost during the
few years of his troubled existence, anC
no Russian can boast of being more Sc
curely in the favor his Imperial lord thar
this same Gourkho, the whilom exile
How securely he is in the good grsces o.
Alexander III. was shown but iuple Of
months ago. At q certain stage OF tnl:
Bulgarian embroglio, when hsuloar!
seemed for q moment to waver in his tasF
of bulldozing a weaker nation, and wher
a more formidable and sterner mar
seemed to be required for the purpose, II
was Gourkho whom the Car thought OF
Luckily for the Bulgarisns, Genera
Kaulbsrs redeemed his reputation OF
bully day or so later, and the grea
taller of Poland wss not required. They
would have regretted the chaDgeif Alexan
der III. had found it expedient to send
Gourkho in the others place. Thus tht
whirligig of fortune has once more lifted
Gourkho on high. Given now good
bitter, bloody war, and the man may az
still better. Those who know him VII